Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to reprobation; condemning in strong terms; criminatory.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to reprobation; expressing reprobation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Expressing, or pertaining to,
reprobation .
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Examples
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In a tremulous state of dissatisfaction with himself — that any such grisly thought should have dared to obtrude itself upon him in this way — he got up and lit the lamp — re-read this disconcerting item in as cold and reprobative way as he could achieve, feeling that in so doing he was putting anything at which it hinted far from him once and for all.
An American Tragedy 2004
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Precisely because prison is an instrument of punishment in the retributivist view, and retributive punishment must be proportionate in some reprobative way to the degree of harm which the offender caused, a retributive sentence of imprisonment must not be excessive, must have definite limits.
Prisons & Punishment Pugsley, Robert A. 1982
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